Stephen C. Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

The Dark Matter of Pragmatics

Known Unknowns

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Produktbeschreibung

This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of Pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. It thus offers a brief review of some central areas of pragmatics, and a survey of targets for future research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Elements in Pragmatics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 110g
• ISBN-13: 9781009489638
• ISBN-10: 1009489631
• Artikelnr.: 69924878

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is pragmatics and why does it matter?
2. How to find out what we don't know we don't Know
3. The human communication bottleneck and the niche for pragmatics
4. A design perspective on human communication
5. The first trick to circumvent the bottleneck: multiplying channels
6. A second trick to circumvent the bottleneck: dual content, word and deed
7. A third trick to circumvent the bottleneck: choice of message form
8. A fourth trick to circumvent the bottleneck: non-literal uses of language
9. A fifth trick to circumvent the bottleneck: leveraging the context
10. From dark matter to dark energy: a central mystery in human communication
11. Some further targets for future research
12. Coda
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